Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Wind 3. Heat Transfer 4. Fire Sources 5. Fire Plumes - Quiescent Environment 6. Fire Plumes - Windy Environment 7. Ignition and Fire Spread Processes 8. Firebrands 9. Spatial Data Modeling 10. Fire Spread Simulation

About the Author

Keisuke Himoto, Dr.Eng., is a senior researcher at the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management in Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests cover a broad range of fire safety issues in the built environment but with a special focus on large outdoor fires. He is the developer of various fire-related computational models, including one of the first physics-based computational models for fire spread in densely-built urban areas.